I have a problem with AI's ship construction suggestions. I generally like it. However, when my cashflow is negative AI still suggests ship building. The problem is the "Purchase" button is grayed out (because of negative cashflow) so all you can do is to cancel it. Completely pointless. The AI should not suggest ship building if you're cashflow negative or if it will then the Purchase button shouldn't be grayed out.

Another suggestion I would make about AI attack suggestions is when I select one attack to be carried out, it would be very nice if the AI's other suggestions about carrying an attack with the same fleet would be cleared so we don't have to manually clear them. Same thing about intelligence missions etc.

Oh another related suggestion is right click should clear AI suggestions without opening. Currently, both left and right click open the suggestion. Sometimes I just want to clear the suggestion without opening it.

This may or may not be the case (a true bug or not) but what I know is there should definitely a behavior change here. I get this advisor popup like 100 times during the game and every time the Purchase button is grayed out and the order amounts suggested by the advisor are all zero.

So either there is a bug or that suggestion needs to be handled differently (or go away immediately on its own if it's not possible to purchase anymore).

Understood - could you upload a save file for that issue please? We did see something like this in testing as well but were hoping we fixed it (where there is still enough cash to build but zero ships are in the list).

I'll say that I just started a Pirate game, and have this issue...it isn't sudden loss of cash either....the suggestions are for 34K when I have a 9.3K + 2.4K cashflow. It did not happen with my empire shadows game either.

After playing this pirate faction a short while, I'm beginning to suspect that the ship suggestions are actually for civilian ships....which don't show up on the ship purchase screen.

I say this, because a few times I've had the popup both before and after I purchased a couple freighters....and each time it seems the amount suggested after the purchase was much smaller than before the purchase....and by a very similar amount to the purchased ships.

Playing the pre warp tutorial I have had multiple instances in only a short playing time of suggestions to buy ships for 0 credits, when you click through to the build screen no ships are recommended (all columns are 0), the purchase button is greyed out and all you can do is cancel.

It is understandable if its only a couple of hundreds or thousands difference but there are times when it requests for around 10k more than your current cash and when you open it the requested amount is something like 1k-5k but most of the time its zero. It happened to each of my Shadows saves so far

I think since Shakturi I was seeing this behavior, although now it is much worse...

The last game I finished, I had 30 million credits, and -50k of cashflow, the AI would suggest me to make purchases that cost 500k credits, but when I clicked on the advisor it was all zero...

Sometimes it happens with positive cashflow too, I think when the ships it want to build need more maintenance than you have of cashflow (example, you have 2k of cashflow, but it want to build a very big capital ship that needs 2.8k in maintenance... when you click the advisor, it shows as zero)